Method for producing coating agent compositions or precursors thereof that can be used in the automobile industry

Abstract

Described herein is a method for producing a coating medium composition usable in the automobile industry, or a precursor thereof, the method including (1), providing a container, which has a label that contains the formula of the target formulation in electronically readable form (2), electronically reading the label (3), providing storage containers containing those components which are required in order to produce the target formulation (4), weighing these components into the containers provided (5), creating an electronic log relating to the weighing-in carried out (6) and creating an electronic documentation of the entire production process (7), wherein the conduct of steps (3), (5) and (6) is carried out by means of assistance by software.

Description

[0001]The present invention relates to a method for producing a coating medium composition usable in the automobile industry, or a precursor thereof, the method comprising at least steps (1) to (7), namely creating a formula of a target formulation or retrieving such an existing formula from a database (1), providing a container, which has a label that contains the formula of the target formulation in electronically readable form (2), electronically reading the label (3), providing storage containers containing those components which are required in order to produce the target formulation (4), weighing these components into the containers provided (5), creating an electronic log relating to the weighing-in carried out (6) and creating an electronic documentation of the entire production process (7), wherein the conduct of steps (3), (5) and (6) is carried out by means of assistance by software, this assistance comprising monitoring of the weighing-in according to step (5), the formu...

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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides a method for weighing-in components used in the production of coating medium compositions used in the automobile industry or precursors thereof. The method allows for accurate and efficient weighing-in of components, with minimal errors and the ability to document and retrieve the weighing-in steps for future reference. Additionally, the method allows for digital recording and coordination of all raw material flows, making it easier to monitor, represent, and control all relevant steps in the production process.

Problems solved by technology

The functional scope of process control systems, including a technique of weighing-in, is therefore tailored to the large industrial scale, and because of this cannot always satisfactorily accommodate the specific requirements of coatings laboratories, and to date is also not readily adaptable and usable for the laboratory scale used therein.

The reasons for this are on the one hand the substantially greater complexity and range of variation in such coatings laboratories and the conduct of comprehensive series of tests compared with mass production of individual large batches.

The result of this is that all attempts to date at optimizing laboratory processes, for example by means of software-based solution approaches, are often already exhausted with the creation of tabular formula printouts.

There are to date no standards for qualitative completion monitoring and uniform documentation of the entire preparation process in terms of the weighing-in and the allowable error tolerances.

However, weighing-in errors often occur in smaller quantities, since the weighing-in of such components is often already terminated before the setpoint value in order to avoid overdosing.